The idea is not to completely switch from our current interfacing, but to simply to support touch gestures in addition to our current UX components.
The users for this featureset are laptop users, users of touchscreen-but-mainline-OS machines, Mac users, and users who have disabilities or preferences which make regular mice uncomfortable or unusable. The planned gestures are: 2 finger scroll, standard zoom gestures, press and hold for a right click menu, 3 finger swiping for switching between tabs, a 3 finger pinch for entering panorama "Firefox only" "with a reverse counterpart," and others as suggested. This feature is important because it would improve ease of use.
The basic idea of this feature is to add support for trackpad gestures to the Mozilla product line.
In practice, some PC manufacturers may resist Microsoft’s precision touchpad specification to save money, but bundle their own drivers and utilities that activate similar touchpad gestures, too.Please use "Edit with form" above to edit this page. That’s how it’s supposed to work, anyway. However, you can also control other settings from here, such as the cursor’s speed and whether the touchpad automatically disables itself while you have an external mouse plugged into your laptop. That’s the only way these gestures appear to be configurable at the moment. Each individual gesture above can be disabled if you like, although they’re all enabled by default.Īside from choosing to enable or disable gestures, you can choose whether a three-finger tap opens Cortana or the Action Center. These gestures can be configured from within the Mouse and touchpad section of the Settings app. From the touchpad settings screen, you can switch this gesture to open the Action Center where you can see notifications and access quick shortcuts. One of the most useful trackpad gestures lives in your Web browser. Activate Cortana (or Open the Action Center): To quickly activate Cortana, perform a three-finger tap.
Swipe up with three fingers to restore the minimized windows.
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You can also tap with one finger in the lower-right corner of the touchpad.